Gisela Stuart

Gisela Stuart (26 November 1955-) was the Labour MP for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1 May 1997 to 3 May 2007, succeeding Jill Knight and preceding Preet Gill.

Biography
Gisela Gschaider was born in Velden, Bavaria, West Germany in 1955, and she moved to the United Kingdom in 1974 to learn English. She served as deputy director of the 1983 London Book Fair, and she soon decided to relocate to the Midlands. In 1997, she became the first Labour MP for the traditionally-Conservative Birmingham Edgbaston constituency, and she served under Prime Minister Tony Blair as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health Services from 1999 to 2001. She was known as a maverick who supported George W. Bush's re-election as President of the United States in 2004, supported the War on Terror, and became the Chair of "Vote Leave" ahead of the successful Brexit referendum in 2016. In 2019, she resigned from the Labour Party and voted for the Conservative Party in that year's 12 December 2019 general election.